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White House Said to Bar Hurricane Report

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I am sure they are doing this for national security reasons, because we all know that there is NO GLOBAL WARMING - and even if there was it is not humans fault.


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e Bush administration has blocked release of a report that suggests global warming is contributing to the frequency and strength of hurricanes, the journal Nature reported Tuesday. The possibility that warming conditions may cause storms to become stronger has generated debate among climate and weather experts, particularly in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

In the new case, Nature said weather experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - part of the Commerce Department - in February set up a seven-member panel to prepare a consensus report on the views of agency scientists about global warming and hurricanes.

According to Nature, a draft of the statement said that warming may be having an effect.

In May, when the report was expected to be released, panel chair Ants Leetmaa received an e-mail from a Commerce official saying the report needed to be made less technical and was not to be released, Nature reported.

Leetmaa, head of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in New Jersey, did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment.

NOAA spokesman Jordan St. John said he had no details of the report.

NOAA Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher is currently out of the country, but Nature quoted him as saying the report was merely an internal document and could not be released because the agency could not take an official position on the issue.

However, the journal said in its online report that the study was merely a discussion of the current state of hurricane science and did not contain any policy or position statements.

A series of studies over the past year or so have shown an increase in the power of hurricanes in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, a strengthening that many storm experts say is tied to rising sea-surface temperatures.

Just two weeks ago, researchers said that most of the increase in ocean temperature that feeds more intense hurricanes is a result of human-induced global warming, a study one researcher said "closes the loop" between climate change and powerful storms like Katrina.

Not all agree, however, with opponents arguing that many other factors affect storms, which can increase and decrease in cycles.

The possibility of global warming affecting hurricanes is politically sensitive because the administration has resisted proposals to restrict release of gases that can cause warming conditions.

In February, a NASA political appointee who worked in the space agency's public relations department resigned after reportedly trying to restrict access to Jim Hansen, a NASA climate scientist who has been active in global warming research.
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All part of the WOR(War on Reports). By fighting the Scientists there(White House), you won't have to fight the Scientists here(America). You don't want Scientists running amock do ya? Don't hate America. 🙁


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it could have very well been just "an internal document" but it does follow the line of a very long pattern of official reports that differ from the official line and don't work well into their plans of desired worldview.
 
Wow, I never thought that NOAA could end up the victim of political censorship by the Bush Administration. It appears that they join a fine tradition of ignoring scientific evidence just like at the EPA and FDA! Way to go. Pretty soon our government agencies will be directed to simply pray to Jesus for answers to the great questions of our time. :roll:
 
Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Wow, I never thought that NOAA could end up the victim of political censorship by the Bush Administration. It appears that they join a fine tradition of ignoring scientific evidence just like at the EPA and FDA! Way to go. Pretty soon our government agencies will be directed to simply pray to Jesus for answers to the great questions of our time. :roll:
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Think of the $$s to be saved(hehe) using that method! You can totally disband the Military even!!
 
I was watching a show on TV last night and they were researching Super Volcanoes and how one eruption could send us into an ice age. 3 or 4 separate scientest found evidence dating backe to 75,000 years ago of there being an Ice age. They were all in a different field of study. One was studying the Ice Sheet in Antartic with core samples, one was studying the ocean floor core samples, one was studying Volcanic Ash, and another was studying a very deep lake next to which they found some Ash from a supposed volcanic eruption. The lake was like 30 miles accross.

Anyway a warming trend is not global warming, but it could be. We have so few records on a global scale of actual temperatures. However we do have some locations even in the US where there are indications of a 500 year Drought. There was also a certain timeframe referred to as the dustbowl in our own history, that indicates some serious weather patterns that had rather damaging effects. It is a bit on the pompous side to assume that we can predict climate changes. However, it may be a good plan to try to limit emissions.

On this show they stated that there are around 50 volcanoes that erupt every year or active at a given time during a given year. All of these Volcanoes produce or give off some harmful gas that is detrimental to our environment. They were saying that this cataclysmic event 75,000 years ago gave off enough Poisounous gas to produce 100 times that.

Global Warming is this kind of catch phrase used to scare people. Global Warming is coming lets all head for the hills. In reality the Earth probably goes through cycles of global warming and global cooling all of the time and while it does change the climate, there may not be much we can do about it but learn to change with our environment.
 
^ I wonder if there is anything we could do to release tension in the big volcanoes instead of waiting for them to EXPLODE.. just an idea
 
Originally posted by: dahunan
^ I wonder if there is anything we could do to release tension in the big volcanoes instead of waiting for them to EXPLODE.. just an idea
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Like a Grand Magma Fleshlight?
 
It's global climate change! Global warming is one of those catch phrases that's taken on a life of its own. While there certainly is a strong trend line towards general warming, the underlying phenomena go well beyond.

Geophysical events such as volcanoes do show up in the climate record but they typically create blips in the trend line instead of driving the trend line.

The big picture is that we really don't have the tools to reliably predict climate long-term . . . BUT that's all the more reason to stay out of the climate altering business.
 
Interesting the we now have two news stories with two different ideas on why the report was blocked.
First one at 540pm White House Said to Bar Hurricane Report

second one at 906pm, and writen by AP science writer Journal: Agency blocked hurricane report

1st one: "NOAA spokesman Jordan St. John said he had no details of the report."

2nd one: "NOAA spokesman Jordan St. John said in responding to the Nature article. "The White House never saw it, so they didn't block it."

I guess during the 4 hours in between stories the second writer got a hold of the spokesman and got some good details.
 
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